Tasks / Unstill Life
Document plant motion.
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In the zone of: Biome
Created by Loki
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This is the corpse flower at the Milwaukee Public Museum. It's going to bloom any day now and make the area around it pretty much uninhabitable for a day or two, and then it will go back to being a weird little non-scented plant.
Very cool.
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Creation and Destruction The life and death of a bean plant named Mendel. ❦ Part One - Life ❦ So, I'm a high school biology teacher. This is a photo of me explaining pH to the kids. I recently had the kids do a lab where they pretended to be ...
I'm not patient enough to wait around for plants to move so I set them into motion myself.... in art!

A solargraph is a photograph taken with a pinhole camera containing not film but black-and-white photosensitive paper. Exposed for a time period between a day and six months, a usually undesirable side effect of long-term light exposure to the unf...

I completed this task pretty literally--check out the photos to see how. First completion w00t!

Lemna trisulca Wherein an aquatic plant almost moves too fast to be documented Better known as duckweed. Fertilizer run-off from new construction is causing out-of-control blooms in the backyard pond every time it rains: Before rain: After rain: ...

Gravitaxis and phototaxis are the natural tendency of a plant to orient aerial parts against gravity, and orientation of the upper surface of the leaves towards a light source. Thigmotaxis is the natural tendency of specific plant parts, such as ten...
I had a lot of pseudo-artistic ideas for this, but in the end, I decided to document plant life on a practical level. (I'm also practicing videos for Sesame Street-like segments, so this was a good candidate.)

This is the initial growth of, "Jersey Asparagus," I planted. I've never tried growing it before and was pleasantly surprised to see it growing one day.
Rapid Plant Movement I encountered a moving plant by the piping outside.
This could be beautiful.